Butt Ugly Players Pack Request

Purchase the Butt Ugly Players Pack Resource kit and mount your own program including dramatic scenes like this Doc Tobacco scene. Develop strong high school aged teen leaders and role models in your community.

The kit includes vital information on how to get started, audtioning, touring, scripts, buzz group training, education content and much more.

 

 

Overview

The Butt Ugly program is a 45-minute interactive drama/comedy and a 45-minute small group workshop. The play uses both recognizable slice of life and fantasy play styles to reach the audience with its anti-tobacco messages. In addition, during interactive segments characters ask the audience to evaluate issues central to the scenes. Issues include 'experimenting with tobacco', common misconceptions, prevalence of teen smokers and chewers, health effects of immediate and prolonged use, financial impact, and strategies by tobacco corporations to target teens.

Participation in Butt Ugly as a peer educator fulfills most of the requirements of the Health and Life Skills as outline in the Alberta Learning Curriculum for students at grades 10/12: 

Play Content

In the prologue we are introduced to Justin, the teen-aged main character. He shares with the audience how becoming addicted to tobacco has influenced his life and confesses his confusion as to how it happened. On cue arrive a comical detective and his knowledgeable sidekick who travel with Justin back in time to identify all the "start traps" that led to his predicament. The audience is actively engaged as forensic scientists, as witnesses and finally as the jury in the case of 'who addicted Justin and why'.

The suspects in this 'Who Dunnit?' are exposed in scenes with smoking parents, well-meaning friends, and myths around smoking and chewing. At one point a mad scientist inventing the deadliest weapon the earth will ever know reveals tobacco's most fatal toxins. The Tobacco Corporation methods to attract youth are exposed at the shooting of an action movie.

In the final scene, set in present time, the audience renders their verdict on who was the biggest influence on Justin starting smoking. Like all interactions with the audience in the play this outcome is open-ended and the guilty party is selected by a majority show of hands. Yet the trial is not over as the middle school students are led to consider a new option, the most likely suspect of all, Justin himself.

By exploring the events that led to a teenager's addiction to tobacco, the play demonstrates the result in failing to make and stick to an informed decision. Through use of humour, relevant characters and audience interaction, the Butt Ugly team gains the trust and admiration of their younger peers. By the end of the dramatic presentation the audience has already made important decisions on paramount issues of youth tobacco use.

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Players Pack Index

Script & Notes
“Some Guy” by Butt Ugly 2004
Themes in the play
Character list
Scenes of Audience Interaction
Rehearsing the Interaction Scenes
Strategy Scenes

Production Items
Costumes
Set & Props
Sound

Student Training: for high school-aged actors

Tobacco Education:

  • Research Assignments
  • Tobacco User Survey

Rehearsal:

  • Character Assignment
  • Character Analysis

Buzz Group
Post Drama Facilitation
Preparing Students to Lead Buzz Group
Buzz Group Checklist (test)

Buzz Pack:

  • Agenda
  • Q & A Cards
  • Scenarios for Refusal Practice
  • Refusal Ammo

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Mailing address: #B102-109, 5212 48 Street,
Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4C6

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